Listen to Grandpa

  I am a native Arizonan , My Godparents were Americans of Mexican dissent. Their family was my family. I say this up front so you can know I have no animosity toward Mexicans. This blog will be about immigration.
  Immigration in this country is broken. We as a country have lost control of the one thing that makes US a country / people, our borders.
In the past we had control of who came in. If you had a skill that was useful, training in a field that was in demand and a wish to be free, to be American . You went to the front of the line. If you had a negative history or had certain illnesses. You could not come in.
  But now tens of thousands of ILLEGAL immigrants pore over the border. The good ,the bad and the ugly, all at once. I will say most fall into the good column , but without control we cant stop the bad and the ugly. So it is of no surprise to me the things like Hooping cough, typhoid and TB are on the rise, this would be the bad. Not much can be done about the bad because bad is just bad. The ugly is the murdering, thieving , thugs that prey on the illegal. That,s right most of the victims of illegal alien crime are illegal aliens. Most of these crime we never hear about. We hear of only the worst of the worst. Most of it goes unreported. This is why I would support a legal worker status for those who wish to work here but do not wish to stay and be Americans. It would bring their work into the light, make it legal and the workers legal so they can be protected.  Alas no legal worker program will work as things now stand. Let me use an analogy .
   A family goes on a trip and comes home to find that a pipe in their home has burst, flooding the house. Now they get into an argument over how to clean up the mess. Dad wants to get out the shop vac and just suck it all up with brute force. Mom wants to use mops and buckets  to get ever last drop. The kids just want to open the doors and windows and let nature take it's course. All three will work. But they are so busy arguing that they don't hear Grandpa saying that the first thing to do is to turn off the water. If you don't, you will never clean up the mess
    If you want a legal worker program. First you have to stop the illegal flow. Then we can talk about how to fix immigration.

            but these are just the ravings of an American WASP